Here is a blog from Argentina. Albeit it is in Spanish, I’ve used Google Translations to convert it to English. This is a really informative blog. The knowledge and information disseminated from this blog is invaluable.
Archive for September, 2009
Texas Governor Rick Perry’s 2010 re-election bid is being marred by his website constantly getting DDoS’d. Some say it was a database overload error, some say, DDoS. You be the judge, read the article here.
DDoS Deflate Script
Sep 30
Here is a very commonly used script, written by MediaLayer for thwarting DDoS attacks. You can learn more about the script, its source code and licensing information from here.
User at your own risk.
HYIP Monitor under DDoS
Sep 30
HYIP Monitor website FairestMonitor.com has been under DDoS attack for the past couple of days. HYIP websites get DDoS a lot, and there is a huge conspiracy theory that the people who DDoS HYIP websites are also then the same people who then come forward and offer protection from such DDoS attacks.
Actinic a small online shopping cart/e-commerce software vendor is currently under a DDoS as per the posting on their forums. You can read more about this attack here.
Botnet activity is on the increase. The recently discovered Maazben botnet is now rapidly increasing its share of malicious traffic. More on this here.
Dutch ISPs huddle together.
Sep 30
Here is something that is interestingly brewing. Dutch ISPs have gotten together to essentially have a ‘treaty’ on controlling and eliminating botnet/malicious traffic from their networks.
A relatively short article in The Register on botnets that are used to send spam emails.
Botnets the herds of zombie (compromised) computers that together cause distributed denial of service attacks, need to be curtailed, but service providers have always thought of this as not their problem. Well, that notion could be changing soon. Working together service providers could put a noose around the botnets and strangling their bandwidth. Read more on this article here.
With the Australian Censorship law – dividing the Aussies, electronic civil disobedience (I just love this phrase) got together for a little DDoS showdown. Read more about it here.